Silver Sands is part of a 6km stretch of white sandy beach that includes Sellicks Beach to the south and Aldinga Beach to the north. This popular stretch of coastline is one of only a few places in South Australia where vehicles are able to drive onto the beach. The beach is known for its flat waters, ideal for those beginning in body boarding, surfing, stand up paddle boarding and swimming. The area is known among the Kaurna Miyurna people as “Ngaltingga” said to mean ‘open, wide’.

FAST FACTS!

• This area is part of the Tjilbruke Dreaming, important to the Kaurna Miyurna people and extending from Brighton to Cape Jervis

• The reef off Aldinga Beach is enjoyed by scuba divers and snorkelers, forming part of the Encounter Marine Park

• Nearby Aldinga Scrub Conservation Park is 300 hectares of sand dunes, red-gum forests and heath. It’s home to brush-tailed possums, shortbeaked echidnas and more than 160 bird species

• French explorer Nicholas Baudin called Aldinga Bay ‘Ance des Curieux’ – ‘Cove of the curious ones’

• Beaches to the south have been used for motorcycle racing on a two mile long track